The Canadian musician, poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen has died this evening at 82. Cohen was also...

From Melissa Myozen Blacker‘s Facebook post: “On the night of December 2nd, in a secret ceremony held late in the night during the December Rohatsu sesshin at Boundless Way Temple, I gave my student James Myosan Cordova denbo, or full Dharma transmission. The ancient traditional ...

Completed in June of 2009 Laren Hogen Bays (b. 1949) is a Zen priest with the White Plum Asanga, a leader of the Zen Community of Oregon, and co-abbot of Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. A practitioner of Zen Buddhism for 40 years ...

… Nothing found or, better said, nothing found that is not right where we sit every day, right where you are now, all along. I sat under the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, where the Buddha awakened … I sat on Vulture Peak, in Lumbini and ...

I’ve been vaguely aware of a movement within the Christian community called New Monasticism or Neo-monasticism for a while now. But I’m finding it floating to my mind and touching my heart much more frequently of late. Wikipedia has a pretty good short summary of ...

WEBSITE: http://zeninamerica.com/ Hi friends! I’ve been having a blast doing this documentary so far, finding myself wanting to see it someday as much as anyone else. As you can see from the trailer, it’s not just teachers I’m talking with — I want this film ...

What from an Old Buddha dies, is not the Old Buddha…Heard Roshi died, and i send a heartfelt Hug and gassho to you. And i write to him from my heart full of gratitude Dear Roshi: I remember the 40th anniversary of the Diamond Sangha, ...

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